Thanks for sharing your stories Valda!
You mentioned your neighborhood in Highland Park... my Grandparents lived with my Great Grandmother in Highland Park back in the late 20s and 30s. They lived there for quite a while, my mother even lived there up until the 1st grade. They lived on a house just off of N Avenue 64 (on Planada Ave), shown below:
Google Street View
Back in those days it was broken into two separate living areas, with my family living upstairs, and the downstairs was rented out as a separate apartment.
Earlier on in this thread I mentioned my Mom's neighborhood and some stories about her childhood in Alhambra (living just below the Phil Spector mansion), but she lived in Highland Park when she was much younger.
Also, YEARS ago (probably 2004) I posted a thread about my Grandmother's stories riding the streetcars from Highland Park to her job at a bank in Downtown Los Angeles. Maybe you guys rode the same streetcar, Valda. Her and my Grandfather kept a Los Angeles street car token for all these years, which she gave to me before she passed (actually, she gave it to me around the time I posted that old thread, I still have it).
Anyway, I just talked to my mom on the phone and she mentioned several interesting historic structures in Highland Park on N Ave 64, just a block or so from their old home. One of them is the Church of the Angeles on 1100 N. Avenue 64. She told me how beautiful the stained glass windows in the church were, as well as mentioned a neat angel statue in front. Here is what the church looks like today:
The stained glass
Google Streetview
Side view from Church Street, notice the clock and statue
Another really quick search brought up this:
Courtesy USC Digital Archive
Church of the Angels info, USC
Notice the clock... In the archives they describe the history of the late 1800s church, which still stands in mostly the same condition.